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  • Applicant withdraws plan for yeshiva dormitory

    Residents of Freehold Borough objected to application for living space in office building BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer Residents packed Borough Hall in Freehold Borough on the evening of Feb. 13 to listen to a continued public hearing on an application to establish a dormitory in a Broad Street building that has been approved…

  • Celebrate Arbor Day with free trees

    The New Jersey Tree Foundation is offering free 2-year-old trees (1 to 2 feet tall) to celebrate Arbor Day 2013 in New Jersey. Schools, local governments, tree groups, nonprofit organizations, Scout groups and any volunteer organization may apply for the free trees. All planting must occur on public lands, be done by volunteers and maintained…

  • Local Knights of Columbus to mark century of service

    Freehold Council 1672 to celebrate with Mass and gala on Feb. 23 BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer Group picture taken outside the new Knights of Columbus Council Home at 70 E. Main St., Freehold, probably in the early to mid-1920s. Photo taken by George A. Morris of Long Branch. For more than 100 years,…

  • Ordinance proposes hike in municipal water fees

    BY JACK MURTHA Staff Writer MARLBORO — For the second consecutive year, customers of the Marlboro Water Utility Division are staring down the barrel of a proposed rate increase. The Township Council introduced an ordinance on Feb. 7 that would, if adopted, boost consumption rates and fees for various water utility services in 2013. The…

  • Colts Neck wants Verizon to pay attention to poles

    BY JACK MURTHA Staff Writer COLTS NECK — Verizon representative Mark Bocchieri attended the Jan. 30 meeting of the Colts Neck Township Committee to answer questions about a proposed ordinance that would grant Verizon access to municipal roads and easements so the company can maintain its communications lines and infrastructure. Bocchieri soon found out that…

  • Info on student loans mandated

    Legislation sponsored by state Senate Republican Leader Tom Kean Jr. and Sen. Robert Singer to assure that New Jersey families understand student loan rates, schedules, debt and defaults was recently signed into law by Republican Gov. Chris Christie. “The price of college and complexity of student loans impose short- and long-term stresses on families,” said…

  • Vandalism reported at two schools

    MANALAPAN — On Jan. 22 at 9:57 a.m., representatives of the Manalapan Parks and Recreation Department reported criminal mischief that had been committed at the Wemrock Brook and Pine Brook schools. The Wemrock Book School is on Millhurst Road, the Pine Brook School is on Pease Road. According to information provided by police, there are…

  • Speaker provides firsthand account of Darfur horrors

    Howell High School hosts El Fadel Arbab on same day Martin Luther King Jr. was born BY THOMAS CASTLES Staff Writer El Fadel Arbab Most people know the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. as the face and voice of the civil rights movement in the United States in the 1960s, but it seems safe to…

  • Marlboro insurance salesman pleads guilty in investment fraud case

    A Monmouth County insurance salesman and purported financial adviser has pleaded guilty to a charge of defrauding 21 clients out of nearly $1.5 million. Jordan L. Zemlock, 50, of Marlboro, pleaded guilty on Feb. 4 to a count of theft by failure to make the required disposition of property received, admitting he cheated clients out…